Searching a file.

"P.NEWBY" <P.NEWBY@east-anglia.ac.uk>
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Subject: Searching a file.
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How do I implement a simple search ?

The server holds a large file of the LISTSERV mailing lists, with one
mailing list per line. I want to:

  - ask the user for a keyword
  - extract from the file all lines containing this keyword
  - present the results to the user.

(I'm no expert in either WWW or unix - yet).

Pat Newby, Computing Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
(p.newby@uea.ac.uk)